RE: [TUHS] Unix Derivatives and Variants - TUHS

27 Jun 2003

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Okay. That's almost how I describe the state of the art to my friends,
and co-workers, and even customers. But shouldn't you have sent this
to the list as well as to me?
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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Natalia Portillo [mailto:iosglpgc@teleline.es]
 Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:51 PM
 To: 'Gregg C Levine'
 Subject: RE: [TUHS] Unix Derivatives and Variants

 I think that you can always compare with ice creams.

 UNIX is an ice cream brand.
 It have many flavours: Bell/AT&T, BSD, Xenix, AIX, A/UX, Coherent, etc.
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  There are other brands.
 MINIX which have only a flavour.
 Linux, with many flavours as RedHat, YDL, Debian, etc

 > -----Mensaje original-----
 > De: tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org
 > [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] En nombre de Gregg C Levine
 > Enviado el: martes, 24 de junio de 2003 23:29
 > Para: 'Warren Toomey'; 'The Unix Heritage Society'
 > Asunto: RE: [TUHS] Unix Derivatives and Variants
 >
 >
 > Hello from Gregg C Levine
 > Go ahead and laugh, but your server could be having a bad day today.
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  > That being said, I am curious myself, as to the
differences. Can
 > someone come up with the definite explanation regarding which is
 > which?
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 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org
 > [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On
 > > Behalf Of Warren Toomey
 > > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:22 PM
 > > To: The Unix Heritage Society
 > > Subject: [TUHS] Unix Derivatives and Variants
 > >
 > > I'm not sure why mailman rejected this e-mail. Anyway, here it is.
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  > > 	Warren
 > >
 > >  Subject: RE: [TUHS] Getting UNIXs for 16-bit 8086
 > >  Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:39:11 -0700
 > >  Thread-Topic: [TUHS] Getting UNIXs for 16-bit 8086
 > >  From: "Ian King" &lt;iking(a)windows.microsoft.com&gt;
 > >  To: "Natalia Portillo" &lt;iosglpgc(a)teleline.es&gt;,
 > &lt;tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org&gt;
 > >
 > > I'm trying to discern the difference between a variant and a
 > derivative.
 > > :-)  Yes, we can trace back to the One True UNIX, but after things
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  > > started branching it gets pretty confusing. 
It's possibly an
 > > indefensible taxonomy to distinguish a 'variant' (Coherent?
XINU?)
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  > from
 > > a derivative (which would encompass any BSD forms, I guess).
 > >
 > > FWIW, a while back someone was selling XINU ported to 8086 (I recall
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  > > buying a set of 5-1/4" source disks a
thousand or so years ago). Is
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  > > that more the sort of thing you're
looking for?  The current
 > version(s)
 > > of XINU are available at
 > http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xsoft.html,
 > > according to Google.  -- Ian
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